‘Game of Thrones’ Recap: The Bear and the Maiden Fair (Video)

So after last week’s horrific finger incident I reasoned that the season-long torture of Theon Greyjoy might be given a brief reprieve. I mean they wouldn’t cut something off of him two weeks in a row, right? The show’s reputation for shocking cruelty is deserved (see Roz in her St. Sebastian pose) but the guy needed a break. Apparently George R.R. Martin who wrote tonight episode, “The Bear and the Maiden Fair,” had other plans for Theon. We did not witness the act, nor were we presented the evidence of the castration, but I’m going to say yeah, yeah that happened. Poor schmuck.

Jen and I dig into the episode in this week’s video review, but kudos to Jamie for pulling a Han Solo and going back to the fortress for his friend. All season the charge against Jamie (aside from the whole Kingslayer thing…but that has been cleared up) is that he’s ignorant of the real world and as a coddled rich kid he trusts that the family fortune will buy him safety and erase all problems. But when money fails him he willingly jumps into the bear pit to save his friend. As I told my wife at the beginning of the season, Jamie becomes one of your favorite characters… it just took him losing a hand.

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